INDIA: Ill Winds Batter Indira Gandhi

In New Delhi, newspapers wrote of the "ill winds" battering the Prime
Minister. To the east, in the city of Patna, an angry crowd interrupted
one of her speeches, chanting, "Indira Gandhi, go back!" At the southern
tip of the subcontinent, near the coastal city of Trivandrum, the signs
posted on palm trees cried out: END DICTATORSHIP, DETHRONE
THE QUEEN!

Mrs. Gandhi's campaign for the re-election of her government was running
into troubleheavy trouble. The four-day national ballot is scheduled
to begin this Wednesday. Privately, some New Delhi pundits were betting
that...